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Garry Harley
Silk Roses: A Sunset of Memories No. 1
Inspired by: Harold Edgerton, Milkdrop Coronet
digital print with hand-punched holes on paper
36″ x 36″
2024
A recent publication by Circle Foundation for the Arts-Lyon, France, described this series as work with a gentle geometrical precision and sophisticated Op Art influence. This series was inspired by the pandemic, a time when families turned to artificial flowers (silk roses) for funerals since many flower shops were closed. The total pandemic related death toll is estimated to be about 1 million, compared to about 58,000 military deaths in the Vietnam War. The color field and hand pinched holes in my paper work recall the Milkdrop Coronet but also Luclo Fontana’s use of holes (buchi) in his work- Fondazione.
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Garry Harley
SOLITUDE NO.8
Archival Pigment Ink on Paper (Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Metallic)
36″ x 30″
2021
Periods of rapid change force choices we were not expecting and can therefore, be very stressful. This series is devoted to my choice, during the COVID period, of choosing solitude as opportunity rather than isolation and doom. I choose a search for elegance and refinement of optical dynamic and not darkness, tension, anger, or despair. My choice of seeing this period as a period of solitude, a certain joie de vivre has been, in-part, expressed in this series, by using my interest in developing images with optical tension within the composition and the use of transparent and subtle colors.
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